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Luebeck Looks to Clusters: Page 3 of 3

This isn't a unique concept: PCs are being examined for use in a range of high-performance applications. Car manufacturer Daimler-Chrysler, for example, has already experimented with a workstation-based grid for running compute-intensive crash test simulations (see Europe Not Grid Locked, Texas Tech Goes for Grid, and Daimler Maps Grid Savings).

There is a decidedly nautical theme to Luebeck’s Institute of Computer Engineering. The University refers to its collection of clusters as the Stortebecker fleet, named after a pirate who once terrorized the Baltic.

— James Rogers, Site Editor, Next-Gen Data Center Forum